County commissioners from Florida's fifteen most rural and fifteen most urban counties were compared in terms of their personal and social characteristics and the relative importance they attribute to selected content and clientele of Cooperative Extension Service programs. Association between these two comparisons was then assessed to determine…

This is Volume II-A of a study to describe federally-subsidized state and county child day care management systems and to report how well the management systems work. Information is reported in terms of nine subsystems: (1) Needs Assessment, (2) Planning and Implementation, (3) Evaluation, (4) Information and Referral, (5) Client Eligibility, (6)…

A project was conducted to investigate the current status of secondary-postsecondary articulation of cooperative work experience programs, to identify impediments to the process, and to formulate recommendations for its enhancement. Sixteen New Jersey community colleges having a cooperative education program were included in the study. The chief…

The cost-effectiveness and 3-year impacts of California's Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) program, which is a statewide initiative aimed at increasing the employment and self-sufficiency of recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), were evaluated by studying follow-up data for 33,000 people from 6 counties who entered…